Picasa is Google’s desktop app to manage photos, and on March 15th, will be discontinuing the application and support. It’s kinda of sad, because it was a good desktop competitor for users not on OS X and didn’t have access to the Photos app. Users of Picasa will find their photos already stored in Google…
7 Great Chromebook and Google Drive Apps for Editing Photos In response to a couple of requests we received from our readers here in EdTech & mLearning, we went ahead and curated for you this collection comprising some of the best photo editing tools in Chrome web store. Most of these apps work perfectly on…
New Visions for Public Schools has published some great addons in the past (such as Doctopus and autoCrat) and they have another winner with FormRedirector. This addon allows you to redirect Google Form responses to different spreadsheets. There are two modes, Multi Destination Mode and Single Destination Mode. Multi Destination Mode Multi Destination Mode allows you to collect responses to additional…
While Google Slides can be viewed as limited in reference to animations, it seems to support one cool feature, animated gifs. Animated gifs are images that usually loop over a few frames, such as this volcano: It’s a pretty spiffy way to spruce up a presentation! To find animated gifs, you can go to Google…
Most presentations are linear in format, one slide after another. What if you wanted to make it more interactive, allowing your students to choose the path they take? Well, you can with Google Slides. I’ve made the sample presentation public so you can see how the final product works. The following video shows how you…
One underutilized feature of word processors is the ability to apply styles to text. I’ve mentioned styles in Google Docs before, but today I want to look into why you would use styles. In simplest terms, styles allow you to consistently format your document while also allowing you to change the look of an entire…
I’ve mentioned in the past about using Pushbullet to send links, text and other information to your students. Yesterday, Google announced the Google Tone. This adds a new icon in the toolbar that when pressed, emits a series of tones that other browsers with the extension installed will hear. I’ve tried it out at home, and…
Google held an online conference this past weekend and has now put up the footage of each of the presentations. There are keynotes from Tia Lendo, Michelle Obama, and LeVar Burton along with some very fascinating sessions. I’ve embedded a few of my favorites, but you’ll probably want to visit the website! (The first two…
Yesterday’s post was all about launching Chrome apps from the toolbar. But what if you want to start a new document in Google Drive from the toolbar? Sure, you can use AppJump to launch Docs, Slides, or Sheets, but then you’re still stuck hitting the + in the lower right to create the document. There are two…
Having copies of a list of students in your classroom can come in very handy, so I played around with Google Sheets and came up with Classroom Student Check List. The sheet gives you four separate lists that you can cut apart and use. New students To add students to the list, you don’t have…